Next mayor's image problem

Dec 29, 2010 8:37:00 PM - chicagotribune.com

Image, leadership challenges overshadow a continued drop in violent crime

While murders and shootings have fallen across the city, gun violence still clings mercilessly to some neighborhoods, raising questions about whether the Police Department deploys enough officers in the most crime-ridden districts. Even though Chicago as a whole was safer in the last decade than in the 1990s or 1980s, the perception remains that crime is out of control.